Iqbal Jaffar

SIXTY-FOUR years ago, the birth of this nation was seen as fulfilment of a dream where people of this part of the subcontinent, mainly Muslims, could live as a democratic polity with dignity and without discrimination. None of it has come…

EVER since 2005, when an American think tank Fund for Peace and the magazine Foreign Policy, began publishing the annual ‘Failed States Index’, the question of whether or not Pakistan is a failed state has often been asked with gleeful…

Writing in this space last week, Dr Atta-ur-Rahman made some radical suggestions for a new constitutional structure to ensure good governance. He is a distinguished member of our society well known as a teacher, researcher, administrator…